Engaging learners and parents through collaboration

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Engaging learners and parents through
collaboration

• Vanessa Scargill
• Aylsham High School
• vanessa.scargill_at_talk21.com

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What we do and why

• Aylsham High School
• Business and Enterprise
• Training School
• Strong collaborator
• Aylsham High School and 10 Primaries,
  collaborating to transform communities
• Support for Parents
• Support for Families
• Community context and resources and
  sustainability

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Schools have the leadership potential to change
communitiesthrough collaboration

• Collaborative partnership with Primary cluster
  schools
• Rural Norfolk Federation
• Our aim is to engage the whole community to see
  learning as relevant, valuable and continuous.
• We do everything we can do engage hard to reach
  families
• We interact with dozens of partners, using our
  collective leadership capacity.

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Helping parents to support their childrens
learning

• We aim for all parents to
• feel welcome
• feel supported
• know how to support their childrens learning
• feel more confident to deal with behaviour
• encourage attendance
• help to improve attainment
• Have higher aspirations for their children

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Helping parents to support their childrens
learning

• Engaging hard to reach parents
• Consultation
• How our Children Learn
• Link Mathematics teacher
• Curriculum support
• Transition
• Parent Support Advisers

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Family Learning

• 2000 family members have taken part in sessions
  during the last 18 months.
• This is shaping the way families feel about
  learning and schools
• Family Learning theme 2007/8 to encourage
  families to think about sustainability and their
  environment

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Working with parents to.

• Improve behaviour
• Improve achievement
• Improve attendance

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Why is this work important ?

• Did you realise that parental involvement in a
  childs learning is more powerful than family
  background, size of family or level of parental
  education and, in the primary years, has more
  impact on attainment than the school itself ?
• (Campaign for Learning 2007)

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the shift is from institutional improvement to
community transformation.

• Professor John West Burnham
• (2002)

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A sustainable community

• Cittaslow is about
• Protecting the environment
• Promoting local produce
• Strong community spirit
• Developing in a way that does not damage the
  things that people value

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Sharing resources and sites

• Community Hospital regeneration
• GCSE Catering students will prepare and cook
  local food for conferences and community café
• Business studies students will undertake
  marketing and ad campaigns
• Erpingham
• Small school huge site great resource for
  Land Based / Environment / Science

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Making the most of resources it doesnt all
have to happen at school

• ADHD support through voluntary sector partner
• Improving Literacy and Numeracy in partnership
  with voluntary sector partner
• Library open on Sundays for weekend Dads
• Sustainability is our first consideration, we
  are leading and shaping elements of our wider
  community and we take this responsibility very
  seriously.

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Cluster Eco Parliament
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What do you do ?What difference does it make?

• Thank you for choosing this session
• vanessa.scargill_at_talk21.com